Sonny Rollins Quotes
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Sonny Rollins Quotes & Sayings
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But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.
— Sonny Rollins
I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.
— Sonny Rollins
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
— Sonny Rollins
Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.
— Sonny Rollins
What I am more concerned about is whether our whole civilization will be around in the next 25 years.
— Sonny Rollins
I'll know when I find the ultimate sound.
— Sonny Rollins
I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.
— Sonny Rollins
I hate music. I wasted my life.
— Sonny Rollins
Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it
— Ikechukwu Joseph
I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.
— Sonny Rollins
Jazz never ends ... it just continues.
— Sonny Rollins
There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.
— Sonny Rollins
I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.
— Sonny Rollins
Mormons aren't gonna buy my album but, you know, what are you gonna do?
— Christina Aguilera
Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.
— Sonny Rollins
No one is original. Everyone is derivative.
— Sonny Rollins
I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.
— Sonny Rollins
I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.
— Sonny Rollins
I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.
— Sonny Rollins
He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.
— Tawni O'Dell
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.
— Sonny Rollins
Charlie Parker stuck out in my mind.
— Sonny Rollins
Let us forgive, let us trust.
Let us love, and let us be just. — Debasish Mridha
Let us love, and let us be just. — Debasish Mridha